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January 4-8, 2010
By The Editors Jan 8, 2010 at 04:53 PM
Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we receive each week. Think we’ve... More
Mission: Quality Control
If you’re going to upend the old editorial process, you need to create a new one
By Craig Silverman Jan 8, 2010 at 11:43 AM
At this time last year, I made a few wishes for corrections and accuracy-related developments in 2009. For the most... More
Pyramid Schemes
Newspapers should feel free to go long
By Megan Garber Jan 6, 2010 at 05:40 PM
We are, as a culture, growing ever more informal with each other. Traditional social hierarchies are compressing, and one effect... More
Is Shorter Really Better?
Why all those quotes in newspaper stories are a good thing
By Greg Marx Jan 5, 2010 at 03:46 PM
Michael Kinsley gets in some good shots against easy targets in his new Atlantic piece arguing that newspaper articles are... More
Head Cases
An expanded version of CJR’s Jan/Feb 2010 interview with NYT reporter Alan Schwarz
By Brent Cunningham Jan 5, 2010 at 08:00 AM
In 2007 The New York Times hired Alan Schwarz largely on the basis of his initial freelance reporting for the... More
Best of 2009: Trudy Lieberman
Lieberman picks her top stories from 2009
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2010 at 02:42 PM
1. The "Baucus Watch" series: Sixteen posts that describe the machinations, in-fighting, and political pressure on the Senate Finance Committee... More
Best of 2009: Alexandra Fenwick
Fenwick picks her top stories from 2009
By Alexandra Fenwick Jan 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM
My two-part interview in November with the former New York Times Shanghai bureau chief, Howard French, on misguided press coverage... More
Best of 2009: The Observatory
Brainard picks The Observatory’s top stories from 2009
By Curtis Brainard Dec 31, 2009 at 09:10 PM
Jan. 13 — Environmental S.W.A.T. Team: 2009 began on a seemingly positive note, with The New York Times pulling a... More
Best of 2009: Ryan Chittum
Chittum picks his top stories from 2009
By Ryan Chittum Dec 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM
1. Audit Interview: Mark Pittman "This is not business journalism’s finest hour. But it is our biggest opportunity ever." 2.... More
Best of 2009: Greg Marx
Marx picks his top stories from 2009
By Greg Marx Dec 30, 2009 at 03:00 PM
The Wrong Stuff This piece was a lot of fun to work on, because it involved doing some reporting to... More
Best of 2009: Clint Hendler
Hendler picks his top stories from 2009
By Clint Hendler Dec 30, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Carl Malamud, Public Printer You may have never heard of the Government Printing Office, a massive bureaucracy that’s responsible for... More
Best of 2009: Dean Starkman
Starkman picks his top stories from 2009
By Dean Starkman Dec 29, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Note to Audit Readers: The Audit will be taking off its green eyeshade and pince nez during a holiday break... More
Best of 2009: Megan Garber
Garber picks her top stories from 2009
By Megan Garber Dec 28, 2009 at 01:36 PM
1) Common Knowledge Part of the first unit in CJR's Press Forward series of future-of-news dialogues, this essay explores the... More
Winter Reading List Revisited
A reader-recommended list of books for journalists
By The Editors Dec 23, 2009 at 02:59 PM
Earlier this month, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community. Below, we present an... More
Corrections for the True Connoisseur
Celebrating some of the year’s strangest corrections
By Craig Silverman Dec 18, 2009 at 09:39 AM
Like a chef who becomes bored with steak and potatoes and begins seeking out the strange and sublime, my taste... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
